The following are useful websites and resources for teachers.
Gathering information on our students
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Who are you? Ever need to gather information about your students AND have it at your digital fingertips? Collect it through either a Google Docs Spreadsheet form or a Survey Monkey free survey. Let's collect a little information about our group!
If your students are going to collect and analyze data, here is a possible survey checklist.doc to evaluate their work.
Looking for an easy scheduling tool? Check out Doodle. Doodle allows you to easily set up meetings, create sign-up slots, etc. Participate in this sample!
Where is my Professional Presence? What is my Professional Presence?Where is my Personal Learning Network (PLN)?
Being part of an educator in the 21st century means being part of a professional community, creating a personal learning network that will allow you to grow as an educator. We need to position ourselves to learn and to share. Plus, as colleagues share ideas and resources, we want to be able to track that information for future use.
Organizing my resources and sharing with others.
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delicious allows you to share your bookmarks, tag them with keywords, bundle or group bookmarks, and create a network to share. You can install a tag creator within your browser which enables a quick save to del.icio.us. Cindy Kendall on delicious. Alternate: diigo. Diigo has shared bookmarks combined with social networking groups. There is a steeper learning curve to diigo, but more community aspects to social bookmarking.
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Google Notebook is a powerful tool that will enable you to keep track and keep a copy of resources that you find. While you may bookmark an item, did you ever return to have it missing? Google Notebook allows you to easily highlight and "clip" the content - and it even grabs the URL for you! In addition, you can create multiple Notebooks and share each notebook with others. Imagine creating a department repository of resources!
Copyright Capers
Fair use, photos, publishing, distance networks - there are many ways to create and publish content, as well as remix or mashup existing content. As educators, we are responsible to demonstrate appropriate copyright.
Here are two interactive copyright activities: JISC uses scenarios and is more relevant to post-secondary; Cyberbee uses simple questions and answers.
Where can you find materials to use? Creative Commons - an excellent starting point, where you can search popular sites for items that give permission for use. Library of Congress - has terrific collections of artifacts
Comiqs allows you to create comic strips using your own photos which you can then embed into websites, wikis, blogs or social networking sites. Comiqs can easily pull in your flickr photos. Pikistrips allow you to create comic strips from your photos. Toondooallows you to create your own comic characters and comic strips.
Microsoft's PhotoStory 3 (Windows only), must be downloaded and installed, allows you to create slide show and video from your own photos, with text captions and music background options.
Animoto in Education - Animoto will analyze the images you upload, suggest music, and remix for you, easily create videos accompanied by music - excellent for collages, advocacy, etc. Educators have free access to a pro account.
BubblePLY - Allows you to add speech and thought bubbles to any online video. Great for drawing students' attention to specific features of a video clip, for encouraging them to use their language skills to comment on the content of the video by having them insert them
Brochuremaker doesn't have an especially pretty interface, but you can replace the generic photos and it is easy to add and edit text.
This storyboard template.doc will be a useful planning tool regardless of which digital storytelling tool you select.
Web-based Video and Photo Editing Jumpcut - Allows free, online video editing Picnik and SnipShot provide free photo editing
Concept Mapping
While Inspiration is the software more commonly used for concept mapping, there are several web-based concept mapping services, some even allowing for collaborative authoring and sharing.
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bubble.us allows you to collaborate with others to create a concept map.
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Exploratree has a variety of concept mapping tools, you can share your guide with others and there is the option to collaborate with others too. Exploratree's movie will provide an overview.
Edorigami has rubrics for a variety of digital technologies, including wikis.
Collaborative Projects
Finding projects to join can be challenging. At the following websites you will find a variety of projects. If you are new to collaborative projects, join a simple project. After experiencing a few projects perhaps you can become an organizer and create one for others to join!
Skype allows you to make free calls over the internet to anyone else who also has Skype. It's free,easy to download and use, and it works with most computers. You have the options of a text chat, an audio chat, a video chat, or all of the options at one time. You can record your chats, expand the conversations with extra tools, and more. You also have the option to have group conversations with up to 20 participants. Note - you cannot have video during a conference call.
Vyew My PC allows you to share your desktop and has a whiteboard space - entirely browser-based so nothing to download! Test #2.
Elluminate has free conferencing for up to 3 users, and you can purchase the product for larger numbers.
Video Streaming ustream.tv provides one way streaming video (from you to the world), with protected private rooms and public channels, and a chat area for backchannel conversation.
Assessment (general) MyStudiyo enables you to create online quizzes Rubistar allows you to create rubrics as well as search their database of existing rubrics
Helpful resources for using Mac and programs
The main starting points to get more info on iLife, Podcasting in
Education and iTunes in Education are:
The iLife site is where you can view and download over 100 educator-
created lesson plans, spanning all grade levels and all subject areas.
The podcasting site contains our free "Podcasting in Education" videos,
links to educational podcasts and information on Professional
Development, delivered via podcasting.
Here are some additional examples of Podcasting in Education, from
within iTunes:
Also, if at any point, you or your students are ready to go beyond
iLife, to start learning our creative pro applications, such as Final
Cut Pro, SoundTrack Pro, Logic Pro, Aperture, etc., we have a wealth of
good information here:
In addition to the above resources, make sure to sign up for our free
"Apple eNews for Education" newsletter. Distributed monthly, eNews for
Education highlights new and exciting uses of Apple technology in
education. For more information, please visit:
Agora - buyer's guide for foreign language materials and info for language professionals http://agoralang.com/
"Trail Guide" of Foreign Language Classes http://www.clta.net/lessons/ Cultural Information
Traditional and digital approachesIntroductionTraditional and Digital==Introduction==
This is a table looking at traditional classroom practice and potential digital alternatives. I have included software tools (proprietary, open source/free (FOSS) and Web 2.0) I am going to link these through to the websites, so if you are adding to this please make it a link.
Traditional and Digital
These are mainly PC based (apologies to Mac users) but I work at a PC school. So if you are adding a Mac Link please put (Mac) beside the name. back to main page
Traditional Approach
Digital Alternative
Software Tools (Italics Opensource or free version)
The following are useful websites and resources for teachers.
Gathering information on our students
If your students are going to collect and analyze data, here is a possible
Looking for an easy scheduling tool? Check out Doodle. Doodle allows you to easily set up meetings, create sign-up slots, etc. Participate in this sample!
Where is my Professional Presence? What is my Professional Presence? Where is my Personal Learning Network (PLN)?
Being part of an educator in the 21st century means being part of a professional community, creating a personal learning network that will allow you to grow as an educator. We need to position ourselves to learn and to share. Plus, as colleagues share ideas and resources, we want to be able to track that information for future use.
Organizing my resources and sharing with others.
Alternate: diigo. Diigo has shared bookmarks combined with social networking groups. There is a steeper learning curve to diigo, but more community aspects to social bookmarking.
Copyright Capers
Fair use, photos, publishing, distance networks - there are many ways to create and publish content, as well as remix or mashup existing content. As educators, we are responsible to demonstrate appropriate copyright.
Here are two interactive copyright activities: JISC uses scenarios and is more relevant to post-secondary; Cyberbee uses simple questions and answers.
Technology & Learning Magazine has a great article about copyright and a handy chart (PDF).
Where can you find materials to use?
Creative Commons - an excellent starting point, where you can search popular sites for items that give permission for use.
Library of Congress - has terrific collections of artifacts
Need an easy way to create citations? Use Citation Machine.
Visit this page for additional copyright safe materials.
Digital Storytelling
Langwitchesdescribes how she used it with her students and how to get started.
You may find this VoiceThread Tutorial movie informative to get started also.
Read more about how educators are using VoiceThread.
Check out this day in a thread project.
Here is a student example in Chinese and a student sample about the zodiac animals.
This example has a teacher record a speech sample and the students repeat and record and here students can hear colors.
A simple use for French vocabulary on professions and a story in Spanish about a horse.
Students doing a VoiceThread project? This
Your turn to comment - practice on our Juan story!
Practice round #2 - comment with your webcam and headset microphone
Video Comments:
Text and Audio Comments:
Microsoft's PhotoStory 3 (Windows only), must be downloaded and installed, allows you to create slide show and video from your own photos, with text captions and music background options.
Animoto in Education - Animoto will analyze the images you upload, suggest music, and remix for you, easily create videos accompanied by music - excellent for collages, advocacy, etc. Educators have free access to a pro account.
BubblePLY - Allows you to add speech and thought bubbles to any online video. Great for drawing students' attention to specific features of a video clip, for encouraging them to use their language skills to comment on the content of the video by having them insert them
Scrapblog takes scrapbooking online.
Brochuremaker doesn't have an especially pretty interface, but you can replace the generic photos and it is easy to add and edit text.
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Web-based Video and Photo Editing
Jumpcut - Allows free, online video editing
Picnik and SnipShot provide free photo editing
Concept Mapping
While Inspiration is the software more commonly used for concept mapping, there are several web-based concept mapping services, some even allowing for collaborative authoring and sharing.
Blogs
classroom-focused blogs
K-107 Internet Classroom - Chinese classroom blog
deutschlernen - a unversity level German class blog
How Beautiful You Are - a first grade classroom in California (caution - sound automatically plays)
Kinderkids Classroom - kindergarten blog in a New Hampshire school
Kirklandneuk Primary Blog - French class in a UK primary school
Las Palabras Son Poder - a high school Spanish teacher blog
Mr. Mayo Student Weblogs - each student has his or her own blog
Songhai Concepts - a Philadelphia information technology class blog
Two Stars and a Wish - French class blog from Newport, Isle of Wright, middle school level (more or less)
TGS MFL Resource and Homework Blog - French and German class blog
education-focused blogs
Moving at the Speed of Creativity
Cool Cat Teacher
David Warlick's $.02 worth
The Fischbowl
Mr. P's Blog - a principal's blog
Weblogged
Establish classroom blogs and blogs for students at Class Blogmeister (created and maintainted by David Warlick) or Edublogs.
Edorigami has rubrics for a variety of digital technologies, including wikis.
Collaborative Projects
Finding projects to join can be challenging. At the following websites you will find a variety of projects. If you are new to collaborative projects, join a simple project. After experiencing a few projects perhaps you can become an organizer and create one for others to join!
Audio and VideoConferencing
Read Cool Cat Teacher Tips for Skype in the Classroom for one teacher's experience getting started with Skype and Wesley Fryer's Tools for the Teks for a more technical article if you happen to be having technical difficulties (this article is a bit dated, but the info is still applicable). School Library Journal has a nice article in See me, Hear me: Skype in the Classroom.
Vyew My PC allows you to share your desktop and has a whiteboard space - entirely browser-based so nothing to download!
Test #2.
Elluminate has free conferencing for up to 3 users, and you can purchase the product for larger numbers.
Video Streaming
ustream.tv provides one way streaming video (from you to the world), with protected private rooms and public channels, and a chat area for backchannel conversation.
Assessment (general)
MyStudiyo enables you to create online quizzes
Rubistar allows you to create rubrics as well as search their database of existing rubrics
Helpful resources for using Mac and programs
The main starting points to get more info on iLife, Podcasting in
Education and iTunes in Education are:
iLife '08 in Education
<http://www.apple.com/education/ilife>
Podcasting in Education
<http://www.apple.com/education/podcasting>
Podcasting in Education - Video Series
<http://www.apple.com/education/resources/podcastingvideos/>
iTunes U and Mobile Learning
<http://www.apple.com/education/ipod/>
The iLife site is where you can view and download over 100 educator-
created lesson plans, spanning all grade levels and all subject areas.
The podcasting site contains our free "Podcasting in Education" videos,
links to educational podcasts and information on Professional
Development, delivered via podcasting.
Here are some additional examples of Podcasting in Education, from
within iTunes:
Education Podcasts on iTunes
<http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewGenre?id=1304>
Information on Apple Podcast Producer, an integrated feature of Mac OS X
Server v10.5 for publishing podcasts, can be found here:
Podcast Producer
<http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/podcasts.html>
If you would like to learn more about how to use GarageBand, we have
detailed GarageBand tutorials available here:
GarageBand Tutorials
<http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/garageband/>
The specific section on using GarageBand to create podcasts begins here:
Creating Your Own Podcast with GarageBand
<http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#garageband-podcast-51>
The other iLife tutorials, for all of the iLife '08 applications
(iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iDVD and iWeb), can be found here:
iLife '08 Multimedia Tutorials
<http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/>
Also, if at any point, you or your students are ready to go beyond
iLife, to start learning our creative pro applications, such as Final
Cut Pro, SoundTrack Pro, Logic Pro, Aperture, etc., we have a wealth of
good information here:
Apple Digital Media Solutions
<http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/creative/>
For more information on Mac OS X v.10.5 "Leopard" please visit:
Mac OS X v.10.5 "Leopard"
<http://www.apple.com/macosx/>
Mac OS X v.10.5 "Leopard" in Education
<http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/macosx/>
Mac OS X v.10.5 "Leopard" - List of 300+ New Features
<http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html>
Mac OS X v.10.5 System Requirements
<http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/>
In addition to the above resources, make sure to sign up for our free
"Apple eNews for Education" newsletter. Distributed monthly, eNews for
Education highlights new and exciting uses of Apple technology in
education. For more information, please visit:
Apple eNews for Education
<http://www.apple.com/enews/subscribe/>
To sign up for our free Apple Learning Interchange, to share classroom
ideas with other educators from around the world, please visit:
Apple Learning Interchange
<http://www.apple.com/ali>
For a current list of free Apple Education seminars and events in your
area, please visit:
Apple Education Seminars and Events
<http://edseminars.apple.com/>
For the complete list of free online Apple seminars, please visit:
<http://www.seminars.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/
ASPRegistration.woa/wa/sol?locs=us_en>
Conjugation Builder
Para grabar nuestros voces...
www.voicethread.com
Un diccionario magnífico...
www.wordreference.com
Un sitio para buscar fotos autorizados...
www.creativecommons.org
Para practicar los verbos, vocabulario y jugar...
www.spaleon.com
www.studyspanish.com
www.spanishnewyork.com
www.quia.com
Best spanish websites
http://www.uni.edu/becker/Spanish3.html#test
Conjugation games: Click links below.
Conjugation station
http://home.utah.edu/~rcb2/conjugation_station/index.html
Burrito Builder
http://www.learnspanishtoday.com/learning_module/burrbuild.htm?n=presentTenseArReg.xml&t=AR%20Present%20Tense
Artículos:
¿Qué piensas del artículo...
Ten-year-old bullfighter sparks debate in France
Check out these conjugation videos on youtube.
Videos:
Great Internet Resources for the Foreign Language Teacher!
Resources Especially for Language Instructors
FLTEACH Home Page - This is a great list serve for teachers of all foreign languages...it's the best!! Make sure that you select the "digest" version, otherwise you will receive 100's of emails every day from this list serve.
http://www.flteach@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/
Scholastic Online - resources in different languages
http://www.scholastic.com
Foreign Language Resources
http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/~thorne/HumanResources.html
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections (IECC)
http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc
National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center
http://www.educ.iastate.edu/nflrc
Internet Resources for Language Teachers and Learners
http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/langsite/ *Go to teaching with the web
Several Foreign Language Links
http://www.stanford.edu/group/CFLP/index.html
The Human Languages Page
http://www.june29.com//HLP/
Foreign Language Education Sites
http://www.aea267.k12.ia.us/curriculum/curriculum.html
National Capital Language Resource Center
http://www.nclrc.org/
Global Teach Net - curriculum units with global connection
http://www.rpcv.org/globaled
Agora - buyer's guide for foreign language materials and info for language professionals
http://agoralang.com/
"Trail Guide" of Foreign Language Classes
http://www.clta.net/lessons/
Cultural Information
Search Engines in Various Countries
http://www.ingrid.org/w3conf-bof/search-ml.html
Foreign Language and Culture
http://www.speakeasy.org/~dbrick/Hot/foreign.html
Virtual Tourist - cultural info about countries around the world
http://www.virtualtourist.com
Facts About Different Countries
http://www.cia.gov
World Online - information about countries around the world
http://www.worldonline.nl
WorldTime Interactive World Atlas
http://www.worldtime.com
Yahooligans! - cultural information for kids and many topics about different countries
http://www.yahooligans.com
The Hall of Multiculturalism
http://www.tenet.edu/halls/multiculturalism.html
E-Conflict - world encyclopedia and simulation, increasing cultural awareness
http://www.countryreports.org/
The History Net - world history information
http://www.thehistorynet.com/
National Geographic Online
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
Foreign Language Mosaic Home Page - all languages - info about countries
http://fllc.smu.edu
Discovery Channel
http://www.discovery.com
Newspapers Around the World
http://www.ipl.org/reading/news/
NEWSLINK - online newspapers around the world
http://www.newslink.org
Teaching Strategies
Teaching Tip of the Day - sharing teaching strategies and activities
http://www.teachnet.com
Teachers Helping Teachers
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/
Classroom Connect
http://www.classroom.net
Global SchoolNet Foundation
http://www.gsn.org
Teachers Net - Includes ways of incorporating the internet into your classroom
http://www.teachers.net
Education World
http://www.education-world.com
Education Week Teacher Magazine
http://www.edweek.org
Busy Teachers Web Site
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/
Yahoo: Education K-12
http://www.yahoo.com/education/k_12
The Education Place
http://www.hmco.com/school/
Reliable Research Online
http://www.virtualchase.com
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Traditional and digital approachesIntroductionTraditional and Digital==Introduction==This is a table looking at traditional classroom practice and potential digital alternatives. I have included software tools (proprietary, open source/free (FOSS) and Web 2.0) I am going to link these through to the websites, so if you are adding to this please make it a link.
Traditional and Digital
These are mainly PC based (apologies to Mac users) but I work at a PC school. So if you are adding a Mac Link please put (Mac) beside the name.back to main page
Word processing tools open office, StarOffice writer, Wordperfect, MS Word,Abiword, Notepad, one-note, Google Documents - http://doc.google.com Zoho Documents and notetaker - www.zoho.com
See Also Diagrams and Flowcharts
Mind mapping - MindMeister - Bubbl.us, Gliffy, CMap Tools, Skrbl, writeboard , inspiration, kidspiration, VUE Visual Understanding Environment, Mind Manager, Freemind, Microsoft Visio, smartideas, Mind mapping - MindMeister, Compendium
Online Publishing
Desktop Publishing - Microsoft Publisher, PagePlus, Adobe pagemaker, scribus
Online Publishing - www.lulu.com/
Notepad
Word Processing - StarOffice writer, Wordperfect, MS Word, Abiword,, Google Documents - http://doc.google.com Zoho Documents and notetaker - www.zoho.com, AJAXwrite, Open Office,
Notepad
Instant messaging - Moodle, Outlook, skype, Yahoo messenger, Microsoft messenger, IRC
Threaded Discussion - First class, Moodle, Ning, Blackboard, ELGG
Blogs - classroom blog meister First class WordPress, Ning, blogger, edublogs, bloglines
Microblogging - twitter
See Also Online Encyclopedias
Voicethread, Slideshare,
Desktop Publishing - Microsoft Publisher, PagePlus, Adobe pagemaker, scribus
Online Publishing - www.lulu.com/
Graphics Tools - Corel draw, Staroffice Draw, Inkscape MS Paint, the GIMP, Tuxpaint, paint.Net, Adobe Photoshop, Photostory 3
materials - Clickview Google Video,teacher.TV YouTube, Teachertube,
Microblogging - twitter
Video Blogging tools Google Video,teacher.TV YouTube, Teachertube,
Audio Blogging tools - Audacity itunes Podcastalley - Voicethread
Posting to conferences, forums, wikis etc
Wiki - First class, Moodle, Ning, Blackboard, ELGG , wikispaces wet-paint wikis
Threaded Discussion - First class, Moodle, Ning, Blackboard, ELGG
Blogs - classroom blog meister First class WordPress, Ning, blogger, edublogs, bloglines
Threaded Discussion - First class, Moodle, Ning, Blackboard, ELGG
LAMS, SurveyMonkey, eXe, scorm objects, Hot potatoes
See Also Survey tools associated with Blogs, wikis, and IM tools
Wiki - First class, Moodle, Ning, Blackboard, ELGG , wikispaces wet-paint wikis
Threaded Discussion - First class, Moodle, Ning, Blackboard, ELGG
Blogs - classroom blog meister First class WordPress, Ning, blogger, edublogs, bloglines
Social Networking Tools - First class, Moodle, Ning, Blackboard, Facebook, MySpace, Friendster Second Life: Class Home Page Builder:
project managment - Ganttproject, MS Project, openproj
task management task coach, First class, Moodle Outlook
Calculators - Standard and scientific calculators
Online resources - wikipedia WebMath:
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